APPENDIX. a 
waters of the sea between said States, and did designate the same by suitable 
monuments, all of which fully appears in an agreement executed by said com- 
missioners, dated the twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, reported by said commissioners re- 
spectively to the General Assembly of each of said States, and recorded in the 
office of the Secretary of each State; and 
Whereas the agreement made by said commissioners, establishing said boundary- 
line, has been ratified and confirmed by said States, to wit, by the State of 
Connecticut in a resolution of its General Assembly, approved May fourth, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and by the State of Rhode Island by a 
resolution of its General Assembly passed May fifth, eighteen hundred and 
eighty-seven; therefore, : 
Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, Vhat the consent of the Congress of the 
United States be, and hereby is, given to said agreement, and to each and every 
part thereof, and the boundaries established by said agreement are hereby ap- 
proved: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be considered 
to impair, or in any manner to affect any right of the United States or jurisdic- 
tion of its courts, in and over the waters which form the subject of said agree- 
ment. 
